The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials)

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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials)
by Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith
from Collins

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• The Wisdon Of Teams
  This is a great book for anyone in business - mainly as it is based on fact and research - not an opinion. I have sent copies to most of my friends in business as it is a worthwhile tool and makes human behaviour more obvious - a great read.

• Good overview on the what and why of teams
  
  Jon Katzenbach and Dough Smith is probably the most classical work on teams at the moment. It's a pretty good description on what teams are and what you can do to create working teams. It also covers quite well the why of teams: why would you want to have teams in your organization.
  The book is divided into three parts:
  - Understanding teams
  - Becoming a team
  - Exploiting the potential
  The first part is the most important part of the book. In the first chapter the authors... more info

• The Wisdom of Teams Displays Much Wisdom
  This book is an excellent read for anyone with responsibilities for leading groups of people to attain desired and sometimes even extraordinary outcomes within their organization. The insights revealed here are a critically important option for organizations that wish or need to attain productivity beyond what can be realized from the sum of individual contributions. Understanding the discipline of real teams can turn someone with average leadership abilities and potential into an extraordinary leader.

• How to form high-performance teams
  What's nice about Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith's book is their willingness to name the truth. They know that everyone pays lip service to teams, but few people act like they truly value teams - and fewer still actually know how teams really work. The authors point out where the hype lies and what it is hiding. Then they go a step farther. They provide a manual for creating what executives say they want: high-performance teams. They illustrate their suggestions, insights and guidelines with a lot... more info

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